in the white house is it that, that trump himself engenders a certain amount of, well, we ve seen this before, because there s been so much of it i would even say numbed, exhausted. exhausted. we re just exhausted by it. you know, trump counts on that i mean, when you think of the things that happened, not just on january 6th, but right before and right after, you know, these were incredible events that, somehow, we ve just gotten used to it. i think that that is you know, the real danger here to democracy is complacency we say, well, the guardrails held, you know, the system is resilient. that s really not an answer. it s not enough. if you were in an elevator that plunged 100 floors and the emergency brakes kicked in at the last minute, you wouldn t say, i ll do that again. i ll take that elevator. right.
michael cohen has already gone to jail for being part of donald trump s scheme to give her hush money right before the election. let s bring in nbc news legal analyst, andrew weissmann. he s a former general counsel of the fbi and served as lead prosecutor in the mueller special counsel s office if the boston red sox get as many wins this year as i ve heard people say, the legal walls are closing in on donald trump, the sox through the years, the sox will have a great year probably win 145 games, win the world series my question to you, since we know that s not going to happen, my question to you is, how is this time different than all the other times we ve heard over the past five years that, quote, the walls are closing in on donald trump? that is a great question. the analogy is also pretty
walk through the timeline. the former president, trump, to this day, says that he said, hey hey, we need a lot of troops. big crowd. i m taking the steps i need to keep the process in the city safe. clarify what happened. did you get that order? the president absolutely said, provide whatever military support is required to protect the demonstrators and protesters that day. some people characterize it as he said that to you? yes, ma am. you were talking to him during the dates prior. on 1/6, the president gave he all the authority i needed. david, i was a green beret, special operator. i had all the i had mission intent, and i didn t need i had everything i needed to do what i you said up until you never saw any indication that he wanted to continue his presidency beyond the fact that he lost. now, looking back, do you see that he did? no, i don t. i mean, the question you re asking is, like, i saw the 1/6
very good. 100 times. smart move. smart move. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. columnist and editor for the washington post, david ignatius join us, as well. as with us, acting secretary of defense under president donald trump, christopher miller. he served in the position immediately following the 2020 election until president biden took office. he is out this week with a new book entitled soldier secretary: warnings from the battlefield and the pentagon about america s most dangerous enemies. we ll get to that in one second. katty, i am curious, though, what was the take on zelenskyy coming to london? i mean, look, everybody who met him, it was very staged. sunak met him at the airport. he spoke in the great hall where queen elizabeth laid in state when we were there for the funeral. a lot of pomp and circumstance. he had the meeting with king charles, what i still want to call prince charles. the visit was only announcd two
what was the tweet about? would you like me to give the direct quote? yeah. please excuse my language. this is a direct quote, but chrissy teigen referred to donald trump as a [ bleep ]. okay. free speech. and what happened after ms. teigen posted her tweet? what did the white house do? what did the trump white house do? from my understanding, the white house reached out to ask that this tweet be removed. yeah. another moment yesterday, that same employee revealed that her bosses changed twitter s internal rules. mika and i know something about this. yeah. a lot about this. to accommodate trump s hateful rhetoric against immigrants. i d like to show you a tweet posted by former president trump about my colleagues and i on july 14th, 2019. it says, in part, quote, why don t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which